The Taikoo Club and members of the Taikoo Refinery held there eleventh annual athletic meeting on New Year's Day. The sports took place on the new ground presented to the Club by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in place of the old one which was required for the works. The firm have been most generous in the laying out of the new ground; there is a fine cycle track, 15 feet wide, six laps to the mile, and surrounded by banks. Inside the track are the cricket pitch and football ground, the whole fenced with iron posts and double wire. "The meeting wast most successful, the prizes-numerous and valuable, and the proceedings were enlivened by the band of the 22nd Bombay Light Infantry. Mrs. Poate presented the prizes to the winners, and the proceedings poet with three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. ate.
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